Catching up and riches

Well, it has been some time since I last posted anything!  But I have found that Facebook is not the place for journal entries!  So, I once again, join the blogging world.  Now let's see if I can remember how to change everything.  Otherwise my background will remain a fall setting!

So much has happened since fall 2012...I don't even know where to begin!  Troy has finished school but not a nursing major.  He decided to change with only 2 semesters left.  He graduated with honors in the computer field, but I am not sure what.  I just know he has a Bachelors of applied science in the ______.  I am just glad we are done for now.  In a year he will start his Master's Degree in Business.  So until then...  He works for Intel Security which used to be McAfee.  He likes it and does really well.

I went back to work at East Idaho Credit Union September of 2013.  I liked it but found that with Troy's work and school schedule it was getting hard.  So I quit the end of May 2014.  I loved the people I worked with and gained many new relationships I needed at the time.  I yearn some day to go back to work, to remove myself from the craziness of toddler life, but I feel like for whatever reason this is where I need to be.  Kara and I started running a couple years ago and we are doing great.  We have done several 10ks and we are signed up for three half marathons this summer.  Right now I am going through a little Achilles Tendonitis, but I think it is on the way our.  It has been a week and a half sine I ran last and I am really needing to do it! 

D is now in the 4th grade.  He likes school for the most part but I think he likes the social atmosphere more!  He plays the piano and plays spring and falls soccer.  He got braces last year and will have them for a while.  He enjoys riding his bike, rollerblades, and skateboard.

T is in the 2nd grade and is really doing great.  He has great grades and things come easy for him.He started Tae kwan do and loves it.  He is almost ready to test for a yellow belt!  He struggles a little in the friend department, but that's okay, he will get there.

Kbj just today finished her first year of preschool!  She loves it.  She also will finish her first year of ballet and tap, but has decided to start gymnastics instead of dance.  She is also playing soccer.  She doesn't love it, but she tried it!  She is very social and loves to play with her friends!

I guess that doesn't catch us up very much considering I have lost 2.5 years, but there's a brief synopsis.

We had a lesson in Sunday school last week about a man who approached Jesus and asked what he needed to do to inherit the kingdom of heaven.  Jesus then told him to follow the commandments and when the man told Christ that he had observed the commandments his whole life, the Savior told him to go, sell what he had and to give it to the poor.  This saddened the man.  He had many belongings.  How could he give up all he had worked for? 

This lesson has stayed with me all week, so much I gave our FHE lesson on this very passage.  Troy and I are saddened to see our neighborhood changing.  Very few people are the same as when we moved here 12 years ago.  Good families have moved out and some good families have moved in, but it makes me a little sad to see empty houses, houses with for sale signs in the yards, and rentals popping up everywhere.  We have looked for a new house, we have even started getting our home ready to sale.  I would like a better neighborhood and a better school for my kids, but after hearing this lesson, I am determined to stay where we are and be more generous in helping those in need.  This is hard for me.  This saddens me, just as it saddened the man who approached the Savior.  I want more.  I want newer, and better.  But a man cannot serve two masters.  This I have to accept.  This rule I have to abide.  In the end, it doesn't matter how big my house was, what type of car I drove, or what type of designer jeans I wore.  But what matters is the time, effort, and love I gave to my fellow man.  What did I do to make this crumbling world a better place?  I try to leave my mark on this world, but am I leaving a good one?  Am I raising strong kids that will carry their weight in helping others?  Do I give my time to do my callings, or did I do a mediocre job and call it good for the sake of it getting done? 

I am grateful for the scriptures and I am feeling the need to be a better person all around...a better mom, a better wife, a better daughter and granddaughter...but most of all I have a strong impression that I need to be a better me.  I am not reaching my full potential.  I am not doing all I should be.  I need to be a better me and give up my riches whether it be time, money, or energy.  I need to serve my fellow man and do my part.

It feels good to be back on blogger!  I feel like my journaling has taken a back seat for a few years.  I want my kiddos to be able to look through these and realize that their mom had a heart, and didn't just yell and scream, haha.  I want to leave my feelings and most importantly my testimony for them, not only to let them know I have one, but maybe so they can draw from it and gain one of their own!